They make the greatest show of what they have done, who have done least.

Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end

Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.

Passion colors all that it touches in its own hues.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.