Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.
The sower of the seed is assuredly the author of the whole harvest of mischief.
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.