“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
“Human nature is above all things lazy”
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning”
“Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!”
“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt”
“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic”
“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm”