By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

Every Country hath its Machiavel.

Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.