It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.
Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.