Whatever is, is in its causes just.
Imitators are but a servile kind of cattle.
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.
Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
Even victors are by victories undone.