By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

It is a way of calling a man a fool when no attention is given to what he says.

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.