What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.

Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature.

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.