Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on such things money should be eagerly spent.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.