Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
If we do the right thing with right intent that is actually our success.
Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.
If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.
The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.
O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
