As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.

Man is a biped without feathers.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

I have good hope that there is something after death.