Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.