Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.