Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.
Dull winter will re-appear.
He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.
You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.