Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.