Conscience is wiser than science.
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.
Defeat serves to enlighten us.
Every man has his devilish minutes.
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.