Don't stumble over something behind you.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

No crime has been without a precedent.

It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.