Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

No one can keep a mask on long.

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

Praise thyself never.

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.