...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.