Advice is judged by results not by intentions.

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field however fertile without cultivation.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face its index the eyes.

A life of peace purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

As the old proverb says Like readily consorts with like.

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

It is a great thing to know our vices.

It is a true saying that One falsehood leads easily to another.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

I will go further and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

While there’s life there’s hope.

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

A friend is as it were a second self.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty.

Endless money forms the sinews of war.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.