Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.
It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.
Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.