A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.