A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

No crime has been without a precedent.

The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

Wisdom comes to no one by chance.

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.