Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.