what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
Old age is the verdict of life.
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you.
To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.
Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.