He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.
I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
It is a great thing to know our vices.
It is a true saying that 'One falsehood leads easily to another'.
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
