Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.