In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.
A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
A sharp-tempered woman, or, for that matter, a man, Is easier to deal with than the clever type Who holds her tongue.