Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

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.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

For the wise man, every day is a festival.