Expediency often silences justice.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

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.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.