Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.