I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?
Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so.
Grub first, then ethics.
A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.