Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.