More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them.
Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.
Silence gives the proper grace to women
Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.
Great Time makes all things dim.
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.