The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

The good, we do it; the evil, that is fortune; man is always right, and destiny always wrong.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.