The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

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

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

All erroneous ideas would perish of their own accord if given clear expression.