When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.
It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.
When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.