Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Nature abhors annihilation.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.