Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.
A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.
Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.
Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.