It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.