I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

All things great are wound up with all things little.

Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

True friends are always together in spirit.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.