In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Close your eyes and you will see.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?