Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an arithmetical training, although they may derive no other advantage from it, always become much quicker than they would have been.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.