Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.
Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.