Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.

Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.