Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.