Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.