Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.