Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

Do what you should, not what you may.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Life without the courage to die is slavery.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

One hand washes the other.

What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.