I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief
In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.
All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.
Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.