The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as to be swayed by something resembling an impulse of the spirit impetu quodam animi or emotion perturbatione, rather than by judgment or deliberation. For men decide far more problems by hate, or love, or lust, or rage, or sorrow, or joy, or hope, or fear, or illusion, or some other inward emotion aliqua permotione mentis, than by reality or authority, or any legal standard, or judicial precedent or statute.

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.