I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

All is change; all yields its place and goes.

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.