Laurence Sterne

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.