“You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.”

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Their silence is enough praise.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

The less my hope, the hotter my love.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

Fortune helps the brave.

Charity begins at home.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

She never was really charming till she died.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.

Moderation in all things.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

People take chances every now and then, and you don’t want to disappoint them.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor’s hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.