“The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy.”

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks everything.

Neither blame nor praise yourself.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yielding themselves up when taken little by little.

May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man?

To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.

The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.

We ought indeed to shrink from and feel shame at what is base, but nature which is over-cautious to avoid blame may be gentle and kindly, but cannot be great.

All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Painting is silent poetry.

You can make money doing evil.

There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

Don’t be evil- apparently people like it better than “Be good”.