The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

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