A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!