Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

Frozen peas can be shelled very fast with a wringer-type washer. Put a pan on one side of the wringer to catch the peas and the pods go on through. You will think peas will go through the wringer and be mashed the moment the pod hits the wringer, but they will pop out before they go through. A very fast job can be done this way.

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity.

Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I shall in some measure compensate this loss by the satisfaction I shall find in your writing.