The difference between ambition and discontent is quite a fine line and sometimes it is hard to tell which is which and which you are feeling!
I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.
You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.
A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.
...his hoofbeats fall like rain, over and over again.
Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.