The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

Human improvement is from within outward.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.