The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
Chess is a sad waste of brains.
In man's most dark extremity Oft succour dawns from Heaven.
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.