Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

As long as you live, learn how to live.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.