Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

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

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.