Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.