The miserable are sacred.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

No crime has been without a precedent.

If you would judge, understand.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

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