A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.
Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.