If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.
Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!