To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.