Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.
A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.
Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.
Beauties that from worth arise are like the grace of deities.
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.