The compulsion of fate is bitter.
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.
The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.
Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.
It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.