Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.