... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall.
Oh, the soul keeps its youth!
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
Be not too strict - too far east is west. You may lose all by demanding all.
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.