There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.