Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.

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

To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.