If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.