Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty.
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.