He only who gave life has a power over it.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.