though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better]

The truth is, we like to talk over our disasters, because they are ours; and others like to listen, because they are not theirs.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

A friend is never alarmed for us in the right place.