There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

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

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.