No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

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

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.