Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.
“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”
“I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest.”