The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.