Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Hatred is a settled anger.