Give fools their gold and knaves their power let fortune's bubbles rise and fall who sows a field or trains a flower or plants a tree is more than all.

History is an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.

The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.