It is never too late to be wise.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

This grieved me heartily ; and now I saw, though too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the cost, and before we judge rightly of our own strength to go through with it.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.