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

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

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

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

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.