Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
No one is content with his own lot.
He will often have to scratch his head, and bite his nails to the quick. [To succeed he will have to puzzle his brains and work hard.]
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.