Adversity makes men remember God.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.