Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

What is there glorious in the world, that is not the product of labor, either of the body or of the mind?

There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance, and their injuries with forgiveness.

Argument does not soften, but rather hardens, the obdurate heart.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and generous fruitage.

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.