Obscurity Often Brings Safety.

Those Who Voluntarily Put Power Into The Hands Of A Tyrant ... Must Not Wonder If It Be At Last Turned Against Themselves.

Our Mere Anticipations Of Life Outrun Its Realities.

I Thought These Grapes Were Ripe, But I See Now They Are Quite Sour.

There Can Be Little Liking Where There Is No Likeness.

If You Wish Me Well, Do Not Stand Pitying Me, But Lend Me Some Succour As Fast As You Can; For Pity Is But Cold Comfort When One Is Up To The Chin In Water, And Within A Hair's Breadth Of Starving Or Drowning.