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.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

There is no proverb that is not true.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.