It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.

In valor there is hope.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.