What Is Deferred Is Not Avoided.

It Is Part Of The Business Of Life To Be Affable And Pleasing To Those Whom Either Nature, Chance Or Circumstance Has Made Our Companions.

I Die The King's Faithful Servant, But God's First.

The Education Of Youth Belongs To The Priests, Yet They Do Not Take So Much Care Of Instructing Them In Letters, As In Forming Their Minds And Manners Aright; They Use All Possible Methods To Infuse, Very Early, Into The Tender And Flexible Minds Of Children, Such Opinions As Are Both Good In Themselves And Will Be Useful To Their Country, For When Deep Impressions Of These Things Are Made At That Age, They Follow Men Through The Whole Course Of Their Lives, And Conduce Much To Preserve The Peace Of The Government, Which Suffers By Nothing More Than By Vices That Rise Out Of Ill Opinions.

The Times Are Never So Bad But That A Good Man Can Make Shift To Live In Them.

The Chief Aim Of Their Constitution Is That, Whenever Public Needs Permit, All Citizens Should Be Free, So Far As Possible, To Withdraw Their Time And Energy From The Service Of The Body, And Devote Themselves To The Freedom And Culture Of The Mind. For That, They Think, Is The Real Happiness Of Life.