“Men of ill judgement oft ignore the good
That lies within their hands, till they have lost it.”

“If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?”

“Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general."”

“Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.”

“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”

“The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones.”

“Till their own dreams at length decive 'em,
And oft repeating, they believe 'em.”

“Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,
I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.”

“Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.”

“People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.”