Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

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!

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.