Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

No one does wrong voluntarily.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.