I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.

There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.