"Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?"

"Great floods have flown From simple sources."

"Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause."

"If a man will make a purchase of a chance, he must abide by the consequences."

"Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein."

"We aim at increasingly better results from our pastoral activity (speaking of the pastoral work of the Catholic church)"

"What dire offence from am'rous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things."

"All this is not the result of accident. It has a philosophical cause. Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity."

"By their fruits ye shall know them."

"As to the logical consequences of this conviction of mine, I may be permitted to remark that logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

"They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."

"That from small fires comes oft no small mishap."

"So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more."

"A bad ending follows a bad beginning."

"Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves."

"From little spark may burst a mighty flame."

"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance, which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt."

"Da requiem; requietus ager bene credita reddit."

"Anything for a quiet life."

"For too much rest itself becomes a pain."

"Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit! rest thee now!"

"On every mountain height Is rest."

"Amidst these restless thoughts this rest I find, For those that rest, not here, there's rest behind."

"Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?"

"Rest is not quitting the busy career; Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere."

"Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd."

"O! quid solutis est beatius curis! Cum mens onus reponit, ac peregrino Labore fessi venimus larem ad nostrum Desideratoque acquiescimus lecto. Hoc est, quod unum est pro laboribus tantis."

"Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please."

"Who, with a body filled and vacant mind, Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread."

"Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard."

"Rest is sweet after strife."

"The result would inevitably be a state of universal rest and death, if the universe were finite and left to obey existing laws. But it is impossible to conceive a limit to the extent of matter in the universe; and therefore science points rather to an endless progress, through an endless space, of action involving the transformation of potential energy into palpable motion and hence into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock, and stopping for ever."

"Silken rest Tie all thy cares up!"

"In the rest of Nirvana all sorrows surcease: Only Buddha can guide to that city of Peace Whose inhabitants have the eternal release."

"Chacun s'égare, et le moins imprudent, Est celui-là qui plus tôt se repent."

"Deus nobis hæc otia fecit."

"Study to be quiet."

"The toils of honour dignify repose."

"What sweet delight a quiet life affords."

"Dulcis et alta quies, placidæque simillima morti."