Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.

"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.