Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Give help rather than advice.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.