Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

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!

Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.

God helps him who strives hard.

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.