Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.