The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
— Horace
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
