If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
All art is an imitation of nature.
Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.