No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.
Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
Strict law is often great injustice.
Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.