He, who loves praise, loves temptation.
Our life must answer for our faith.
The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.
Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.
A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.