An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.

While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.