God helps him who strives hard.
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.
There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.