The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?

Give the devil his due.

You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.

Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman.

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.