When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.