“I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.”

“It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.”

“Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.”

“When the rare chance comes, seize itTo do the rare deed.”

“It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues,Which moves the world.”

“Great wealth, like a crowd at a concert,Gathers and melts.”

“I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?”

“Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.”

“May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”