A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

Expediency often silences justice.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.