“Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.”

I bend and do not break.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

We ought to consider the end in everything.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give.

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism – this is the art of living.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

We heed no instincts but our own.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man’s perfidy will rebound on himself.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.

Still people are dangerous.

A hare is not caught with a drum.

You can’t fake anything. If you’re honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.

One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you’re not.

They’re all fake belts. To be honest, I think real belt is Tony Ferguson’s.

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you better know something.

Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you.

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev’n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened – Man’s forgiveness give and take!