Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.