...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer the penalty for sins committed in a former life.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

The aim of justice is to give everyone his due.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.