The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

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.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.