Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

Expediency often silences justice.

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.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none