Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

Men practice war; beasts do not.

Virtue is nothing else than right reason

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.