In any adversity gold can find friends.
But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the world is right; but it is also just possible that the world ... may be wrong.
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.