The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.
The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it.
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.