The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Time is the greatest remedy for anger.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.