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.

How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.

The fewer desires, the more peace.

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.

Labor, therefore, is a duty from which no man living is exempt, without forfeiting his right to his daily bread.

There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.