Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.
Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.
The spirit is the true self.
Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.
To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.