As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

Do all things with love.