"You should not honor men more than truth."

"No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern."

"No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes."

"Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.,."

"It is impossible to improve the world if first the man does not improve."

"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

"Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him."

"Let nobody speak mischief of anybody."

"Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him."