The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.