There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.
There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.
All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.
I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.