If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.