Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty.

To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.