The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.