Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Rumor is not always wrong

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.