Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.
There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.
Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.