While you teach, you learn.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

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.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.