Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

A quart bottle should hold a quart.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.