The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.