Great events have sent before them their announcements.

All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time.

No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace.

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.