No crime has been without a precedent.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

A troubled countenance oft discloses much.