...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
The expression of truth is simplicity.