It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind that it will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

Fortune had favoured me in this war that I feared, the rather, that some tempest would follow so favourable a gale.

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.