It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
States are great engines moving slowly.
There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.
If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.
Vices of the time; vices of the man.