When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

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

The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

It is courage that vanquishes in war, and not good weapons.

Where one door shuts another opens.

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.