I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.
Obscurity brings safety.
Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
Only cowards insult dying majesty.
Clumsy jesting is no joke.