Those who covet much suffer from the want.
He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of reason and deserted the post of virtue.
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
Envy is not to be conquered but by death.
The mind that is cheerful in its present state, will be averse to all solicitude as to the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a placid smile.
Amiability shines by its own light.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
A house without books is like a room without windows.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.
It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.