An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?

Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.