Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.