The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.

We believe no evil till the evil's done

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

One often has need of one inferior to himself.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.