Affliction is a good man's shining time.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
A death-bed's a detector of the heart.
O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!