Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.

The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.