Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper-the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

The best part of health is fine disposition.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Goodness that preaches undoes itself.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.