Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.
Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
Necessity is stronger than duty.
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.