Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

He is most powerful who governs himself.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

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

There is no evil without its compensation.