Of the future, man knows least; yet, about this, he worries most.

Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.

The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.

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.

However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.

Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.