What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.
Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.
All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.