At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Habit is the deepest law of human nature
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.