Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

Fine conduct is always spontaneous.

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.