I suspect that hunger was my mother.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

Wine is a cunning wrestler.