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.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

Honesty's the best policy.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Though Gods attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Fortune may have yet a better success in reserve for you and they who lose today may win tomorrow.