Seek for good, but expect evil.

Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

When in doubt, lean to the side of #‎ mercy .

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.