Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

The best cure for anger is delay.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

As was his language so was his life.