Sweet is pleasure after pain.

Uncertain whose the narrowest span,--the clown unread, or half-read gentleman.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.

So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.