Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Love consists of a commitment which limits one’s freedom – it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one’s freedom on behalf of another.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person’s good.

Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.