For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.