Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
In every good man a God doth dwell.