Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

One should choose for a wife only such a woman as he would choose for a friend, were she a man.

Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.