A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

Speech is the index of the mind.

Luck never made a man wise.