Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine.