There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

Living or dead, to a good man there can come no evil.

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.