There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.