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.
Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody’s, a long one can be nobody’s.
Life’s neither a good nor an evil: it’s a field for good and evil.
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.
Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.
Our life’s a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.