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“Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.”

“There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.”

“It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.”

“It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.”

“Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.”

“Temerity is not always successful.”

“They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.”

“Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.”

“Better late than never.”
Potius sero quam nunquam.