Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
What is deferred is not avoided.
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.