Great people create great acts of kindness.

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

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

Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.