Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you find one that will bear the stretch and keep the pitch.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.