“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”

“Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul”

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.”

“The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.”

“That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street, carried to the duke's house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact, that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason, and finds himself a true prince.”

“Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.”