The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Death is like thunder in two particulars; we are alarmed, at the sound of it; and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.