Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

Luck never made a man wise.

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.

The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.

For greed all nature is too little.

Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.

The wish for healing has ever been the half of health.