In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

Like associates with like.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

Every animal loves itself.