So I like life and I like righteousness; if I cannot keep the two together, I will let life go and choose righteousness.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.