It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

Better to suffer than to die.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.

A hare is not caught with a drum.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.