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

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?