What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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.