Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

Time will unveil all things to posterity.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.