Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress.

As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.

The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.

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.

Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.