Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.
In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others.
In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.
True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.