Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet- the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.