Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.

It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

He had a face like a blessing.

Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.