Had Cæsar or Cromwell changed countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman. Goldsmith.
Had God meant me to be different, He would 30 have created me different. Goethe.
Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal / I serv'd my king, He would not in mine age / Have left me naked to mine enemies. Hen. VIII., iii. 2.
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; so ready are we to judge from the event. Euripides.
Had not God made this world, and death too, it were an insupportable place. Carlyle.
Had religion been a mere chimæra, it would long ago have been extinct; were it susceptible of a definite formula, that formula would long ago have been discovered. Renan.
Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one. 35 Byron.
Had we never loved sae kindly, / Had we never loved sae blindly, / Never met or never parted, / We had ne'er been broken-hearted! Burns.
Hæ nugæ seria ducent / In mala—These trifles will lead to serious mischief. Hor.
Hæ tibi erant artes, pacisque imponere morem, / Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos—These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. Virg.