The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.

There is no need to suppose that human beings differ very much one from another; but it is true that the ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school.