Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

Man is his own worst enemy.