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.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.