A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

The way of God is complex, he is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.

Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.