Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man.

Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

A fool cannot hold his tongue.

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.