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

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

A liar ought to have a good memory.