Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.