Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.