What once were vices are manners now.
Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.