Pride's chickens have bonny feathers, but they are an expensive brood to rear. They eat up everything, and are always lean when brought to market.

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.