God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.