A colt is worth little if it does not break its halter.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Self-command is the main discipline.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.