Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing.
Apples taste sweetest when they’re going.
The profit on a good action is to have done it.
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
Forgive that you may be forgiven.
Fortune’s not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
Life’s neither a good nor an evil: it’s a field for good and evil.