Action achieves more than words.
All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!
Money is the wise man's religion.
It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.
The best of seers is he who guesses well.
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.