Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.

A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.