Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.

Money is the seed of money.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.