Fine conduct is always spontaneous.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.