Attention is like a narrow mouthed vessel; pour into it what you have to say cautiously, and, as it were, drop by drop.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

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!

Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features

Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.