People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
The world is ruled by other people, than people believe to know.
Trust not overmuch to the blessed Magdalen; learn to protect yourself.
Genius, when young, is divine.