Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.

Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification