A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
A joke's a very serious thing.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.