The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.
Strange an astrologer should die, without one wonder in the sky.