As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.