Great Throughts Treasury

"Any evill at the first entring in of it may easely bee avoyded, but let one or two presidentes passe patiently without resisting, and it will run into custome, and from thence to a law, and you will never bee able after to rid your handes of it."

"To err is human, to persist in error beastly."

"A kingdom is more easyly gotten than kept. For to get is the gift of fortune, but to keepe is the power of prudency and wisdome."

"Nothing violent is permanent."

"Death is but a fleeting from one life into another."

"A woman, an ass and a walnut tree, Bring more fruit, the more beaten they be."