Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.