Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.