As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.