When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
Necessity is stronger than duty.
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
Speech is the index of the mind.
It is opportunity that makes the thief.