We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.