If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.
A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
I happy am, if well with you.