To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

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

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

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.