Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

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.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.