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.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.

Virtue is its own reward.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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