The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.