So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

Know not to revere human things too much.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.