Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought....The little human animal will not at first have the right responses. It must be trained to feel pleasure, liking, disgust, and hatred at those things which really are pleasant, likable, disgusting, and hateful.

The greatest victory is over self.