The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time

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

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.