All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
the matrimonial shoe pinches me.
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.
Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.
Perhaps when the light of heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earth road that led to the heavenly city, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped.
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.