Cleverness is not wisdom.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

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.

Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.