When you model yourself on people, you should try to resemble their good sides.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still. Get your money.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.