He who has far to ride spares his horse.

Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!

Without money honor is merely a disease.

How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His judges, nor of His executioners. They report the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of His ignominious death, which they thus describe: "And they crucified Jesus.

When I'm carried away, isn't it clear that my heart contradicts my mouth?

Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.

I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?