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.
The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.
What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.
The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.