The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.

Speak no evil of women; I tell thee the meanest of them deserves respect; for of women do we not all come?

And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

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

For man's greatest crime is to have been born.