Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Every human being is a volume, worthy to be studied.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.