Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
The happy man does not notice the flight of time.
In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.
It is play and only play that makes man complete.
Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.
When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.
The victor is often vanquished by his own success.
Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.
O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
Joy all creatures drink At nature’s bosoms...
Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.
It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
For the world is only governed by self-interest.
An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.
There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man’s unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.
Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?