An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie

Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.