How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.

The only absolute morality is absolute stagnation.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.