There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.

All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.

Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.