Luck cannot change birth.

The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned.

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new arts.

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

Patience lightens the burthen we cannot avert.