Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
When you give, give with joy and smiling.
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.