The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

In every good man a God doth dwell.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.