The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.