In Critical Moments Even The Very Powerful

Obscurity Often Brings Safety.

If You Wish Me Well, Do Not Stand Pitying Me, But Lend Me Some Succour As Fast As You Can; For Pity Is But Cold Comfort When One Is Up To The Chin In Water, And Within A Hair's Breadth Of Starving Or Drowning.

I Will Have Nought To Do With A Man Who Can Blow Hot And Cold With The Same Breath.

It Is One Thing To Conceive A Good Plan, And Another To Execute It

If You Were Foolish Enough To Sing All The Summer, You Must Dance Supperless To Bed In The Winter.