No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
Beware the fury of a patient man.
That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.