What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

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.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.