ethics
“It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.”
“Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.”
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
“Love is wise, hatred is foolish.”
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
“To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.”
“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as, to be hated, needs but to be seen; yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace.”
“He that hath promised ought to make his promise good.”
“Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies will not easily be excluded.”
“No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives unto no one.”
“If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee.”
“Hath any wronged thee? Be bravely revenged: slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished.”
“Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.”
“Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.”
“Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.”
“All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.”
“If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
“There are glimpses of heaven in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.”
“The first essential for the orator is that he should be a good man.”