Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.
Heaven's help is better than early rising.
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.