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

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

Either is both, and Both is neither.

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.