The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

The divinity who rules within us, forbids us to leave this world without his command.