The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
To generous souls every task is noble.
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.
Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.