Crime oft recoils upon the author’s head.
Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
Do what you should, not what you may.
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
He is most powerful who governs himself.
He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.