In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
Hatred is settled anger.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Kindness is stronger than fear.
Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
