A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.