Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
Grief is not in the nature of things, but in opinion.
The beginnings of all things are small.
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?