Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.