Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
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.
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
Real improvement is of slow growth only.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.