No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.
Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.
Let us not go over the old ground but rather prepare for what is to come.
Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.