The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.