Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

But what is past my help is past my care.

You are no better than you should be.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Bad's the best of us.

Kiss till the cow comes home.

Corruption is a tree whose branches are of an immeasurable length they spread evrywhere and the dew that drops from thence hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

Daisies smell less yet most quaint And sweet thyme true Primrose first born child of Ver Merry Spring times harbinger.

If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience: hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.