Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.