The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.