If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

No Sane man will dance.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

The spirit is the true self.

The more laws, the less justice.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

There is no place more delightful than home.

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.