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

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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.

There is nothing which wings its flight so swiftly as calumny, nothing is uttered with more ease; nothing is listened to with more readiness, nothing disbursed more widely.

The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.