“Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.”

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

Smooth words in place of gifts.

Badly gotten, badly spent.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

It is easy to rule over the good.

Worthy things happen to the worthy.

Conquered, we conquer.

Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.