Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.