Vice often rides triumphant in virtue's chariot. [ Proverb ]

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. [ Rochefoucauld ]

And maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind. [ Bible ]

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy. [ Ouida ]

The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad. [ Carlyle ]

Phaeton was his father's heir; born to attain the highest fortune without earning it; he had built no sun-chariot (could not build the simplest wheel-barrow), but could and would insist on driving one; and so broke his own stiff neck, sent gig and horses spinning through infinite space, and set the universe on fire. [ Carlyle ]