If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.