The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.
Vanity is but the surface.
they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.