An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'