"For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief."

"The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession."

"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."

"Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord."

"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."

"The higher your station, the less your liberty."

"Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return."

"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others."

"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."

"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."

"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it."

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."