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

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

To meditate an injury is to commit one.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

We learn not in the school, but in life.