The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.
The act of God injures no one.
Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.
Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.
A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]