Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.
Thrift is of great revenue.
It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge
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.