It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.