A gift much expected is paid, not given.
We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.
'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
The morning Sunne never lasts a day.
A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.