If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.