If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Strict law is often great injustice.

Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.

The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.