Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Expediency often silences justice.
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.