“Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”

“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him”

“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”

“An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards”

“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much”