Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.
Sovereign money procures a wife with a large fortune, gets a man credit, creates friends, stands in place of pedigree, and even of beauty.
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.