Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

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

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

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

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.