Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.
An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.