In an evil hour thou bring'st her home. [You are marrying a shrew.]

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had been endowed with.

A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.