All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.
In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.
There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.