Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.
Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.