Patience is a conquering virtue.

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The devil can only destroy those who are already on their way to damnation.

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Strike while the iron is hot.

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In the stars is written the death of every man.

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I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

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The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.

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All good things must come to an end.

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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

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Time and tide wait for no man.

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Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

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