One should not run on a new road.
what is unreasonable is irrefutable.
In any adversity gold can find friends.
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.
In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.
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.