We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Luck never made a man wise.

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

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.