I do not teach. I relate.

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.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?