If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.
The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.
The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.
The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.