He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.
When the mischief is done the door is shut.
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.