You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.