A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed.

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

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

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