When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.- Miguel de Cervantes
When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
To be prepared is half the victory.
Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
This ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep.
