Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

Luck never made a man wise.