Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.