Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

Whatever you have spend less.