It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.