Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.