For who is there but you? Who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.

Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influen…

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.

Justice hates it when I make people obey me out of fear. She thinks it's ugly and not nice. She always used to make people obey her by changing what they wante…