Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.
We are not men, but promises of men.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.
As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.