“When highest placed on giddy Fortune's wheel,
Unhappy man must soon expect to feel
A sad reverse, and in the changing round
With rapid whirl as sudden touch the ground.”

“Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.”

“Everything feels right with the world…
… and the sad thing is that I know it's a dream. I know it must soon end, and when it does I will be thrust awake into a place where either I'm broken, or the world is broken.”

“Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?”

“He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.”

“Jade and men are both shaped by harsh tools; be not unaware of sudden changes of fortune.”

“As they toil they are whirled round by a furious wave.”
Unda laborantes praeceps rotat.

“My dear Hardman,
It was pleasant… I am sorry that your Oriental venture has not been going as well as you expected. But, then, I think that the days when a man could expect to make his fortune in the East are dead and gone. Indeed, the time seems to have come for the reverse of the old process to apply, and for the East to dominate the West.”

“Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched….”

“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”