Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

God is truth and light his shadow.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.