There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

The first bond of society is marriage.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.