Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

Few people have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. Most people confuse greatness with power, despite the fact that greatness has nothing to do with power.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.