Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

The greatest victory is over self.

It makes no difference whether a good man has defrauded a bad man, or a bad man defrauded a good man, or whether a good or bad man has committed adultery: the law can look only to the amount of damage done.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Courage is the mother of all virtues because without it, you cannot consistently perform the others.