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.

The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.