One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

Fate leads the willing, and th' unwilling draws.

If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.