It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.