Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.