Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.