The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.