Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.

He is most powerful who governs himself.