Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.