Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.