Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Come back with your shield - or on it

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

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.