There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.