Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.