Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.