Too much sanity may be madness!

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

Let the worst come to the worst.

The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.