For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

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

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

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.