Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.