The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child