Virtue is her own reward.

If one must be rejected, one succeed, make him my lord within whose faithful breast is fixed my image, and who loves me best.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.