Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.
Pity is akin to love.
There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.
The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.
An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.
Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.