It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.