The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

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.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?