Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.
Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.
Wise were the kings who never chose a friend till with full cups they had unmasked his soul, and seen the bottom of his deepest thoughts.
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
Why then should words challenge Eternity, When greatest men, and greatest actions die? Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue; Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.