The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.