Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.
He wants worth who dares not praise a foe.
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.