We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.