Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.