Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
States are great engines moving slowly.
Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.