Real improvement is of slow growth only.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts