A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.