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

In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.

Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.