“The higher up on Fortune's wheel you see
A wretch ascend, the sooner he will fall,
And where his head is now, his feet will be.”

“A soldier has one item that cannot be neglected. His feet. They are his wheels, his mechanised warfare.”

“The wheel of Fortune tourneth as a ball;
Sodeyn clymbyng axeth a sodeyn fall.”

“He quite clearly had his feet on the ground and his head and his imagination was flying way, way out there, beyond, beyond.”

“He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.”

“It is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.”

“Is the object of his thought lofty in its character, so is he. Is it low, so is he. We rise or fall, we ascend or descend, according to our ideals.”

“Like ice beneath the sun's rays — to such poverty did he fall…his fortune melted to water.”

“But he was not the man to go about telling his neighbors that he was in error. And so people said he had no respect for the gods of the clan. His enemies said that his good fortune had gone to his head.”

“Properly speaking, man inhabits only his head and his heart. All other places are vainly before his eyes, at his sides, and under his feet: he himself is not there at all.”