To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.

When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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

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.