Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

Better late than never.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.

We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.