'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

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.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.

All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.