Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Enjoy in happiness the pleasures which each hour brings with it.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense, now and then, is pleasant.

Believe it, future generations.

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.