The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

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.

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!

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

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!