Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.