There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

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.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.