No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

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

The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.