When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.

Be understood in thy teaching, and instruct to this measure of capacity; precepts and rules are repulsive to a child, but happy illustration winneth him.

O Death, what are thou? nurse of dreamless slumbers freshening the fevered flesh to a wakefulness eternal.

The pen has shaken nations.

A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.

Not few nor light are the burdens of life; then load it not with heaviness of spirit.