Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

Let every foot have its own shoe.

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.