You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
