What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.