A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.

Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.

God has joined the innocent with the guilty.