Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.

Falsehoods border on truths.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.