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

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

Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe.

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

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

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.