There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
He who is penitent is almost innocent.