Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

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.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit