Philosophy is the health of the mind.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

No man ever became wise by chance.