I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but …

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.