If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime?

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]