To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

No evil is without its compensation.