If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.

Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.