Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

He who knows himself knows others.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

The greatest miracle that the Almighty could perform would be to make a bad man happy, even in heaven; he must unparadise that blessed place to accomplish it. In its primary signification, all vice--that is, all excess--brings its own punishment even here.

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.