The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

Self love is number one. As you radiate it out to others

When I touch you, it makes me trembling.I feel like I've lost myself, existentially.Your lips on mine makes me feel likeI'm flying across the universe, without aimlessly.

A hand fought best when it made a fist.

Things are sometimes better left as they are, but you can't be sure until you change them.

If one's life is simple, contentment has to come.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.