What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.