A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.

Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.