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.
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est
The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.