What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.