Every man is the son of his own works.

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

Miracle me no miracles.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time

Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.