To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

I never really said all those things I said

Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.