Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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.
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.