In bringing up a child, think of its old age.

All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Justice is the truth in action.

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.