Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
Pain is an outcry of sin.
He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.