Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

Integrity gains strength by use.

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

Malice and hatred are very fretting and vexatious, and apt to make our minds sore and uneasy; but he that can moderate these affections will find ease in his mind.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

If you cannot seat where they sit, you have no right to tell them what’s good for them.

Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

To Educate is to Free.

It's a hard thing to explain, but the more I arrange for strings, the more I realize the possibilities.

Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.