Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.