Liberty begets license.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Power call achieve more by gentle means than by violence.
Here is a fine field for talent.
Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.
Luxury, that alluring pest with fair forehead, which, yielding always to the will of the body, throws a deadening influence over the senses, and weakens the limbs more than the drugs of Circe's cup.