 Little things please little minds. |
| Art lies by its own artifice. |
| Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. |
| Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. |
| If you want to be loved, be lovable. |
| The prayers of cowards fortune spurns. |
| A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace. |
| Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. |
| Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. |
| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. |
| The heavier crop is ever in others' fields. |
| Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with. |
| You will go most safely in the middle. |
| What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please. |
| Habits change into character. |
| Daring is not safe against daring men. |
| Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. |
| Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. |
| Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. |
| Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned. |
