Great people create great acts of kindness.

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

For men may prove and use their friends, as the poet expresses it, usque ad aras, meaning that a friend should not be required to act contrary to the law of God.

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence, modesty, right conduct, Generosity and good breeding, all of which qualities may exist in an ugly man; And when one's gaze is fixed upon beauty of this sort and not upon that of the body, Love is usually born suddenly and violently.