Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.
The worst men often give the best advice.
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.