Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?

Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.

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

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.