Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

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

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

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.