The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.