Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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.
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.