If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.