In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.
The truly great and good, in affliction, bear a countenance more princely than they are wont; for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.
Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.
Either I will find a way, or I will make one.