Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

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.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.