The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition..

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.].

Fear makes men believe the worst..

It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.].

Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak..

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.].

Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue can not reach it. [Lat., Nihil tam alte natura constituit quo virtus non possit eniti.].

Despair is a great incentive to honorable death..

Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man..

Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant.

Habit is stronger than nature..

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et for….

A timid dog barks more violently than it bites. Curtius Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.

When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear..

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration..

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule..

Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare….

When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear. [Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum….

For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, whi….

Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.].

He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height..