Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

The profit on a good action is to have done it.

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.

Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.