Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

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.

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

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.