It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

Nothing aids which may not also injure us. Fire serves us well, but he who plots to burn His neighbor's roof arms his hands with fire.

For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.