In charity there is no excess.

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.