Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

Life without learning is death.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.