If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.