As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.

The Germans, a race eager for war.