Great men always pay deference to greater.

Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics lose in every soldier a part of themselves.

Delay in justice is injustice.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it; and the other's when we have had it for some time.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

Falsehood is for a season.