No evil is without its compensation.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

Mercy often inflicts death.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.