Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is gladdened by the soothings of sleep.

Men scanning the surface count the wicked happy; they see not the frightful dreams that crowd a bad man's pillow.

The pen has shaken nations.

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed.

Extravagance is the rich man's pitfall.