Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.