Revenge is a kind of wild justice.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."
It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.