The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.