The future influences the present just as much as the past.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .