They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Believe there are no limits but the sky.

It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.