Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.