The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

A hated government does not long survive.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

If you wish to be loved, love.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.