The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.
We become willing servants to the good by the bonds their virtues lay upon us.
Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.