The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.