In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.

It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.

True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.

It takes strong ears indeed to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship. For it is a healthy love that will risk wounding or offending in order to profer a benefit.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.