That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

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.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.