Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.
We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.
On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.
When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?
Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.