The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

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

Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.