Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

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.

Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.