... if fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

Kindness is always fashionable.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.