Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.