The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.