Whatever is preached to us, and whatever we learn, we should still remember that it is man that gives, and man that receives; it is a mortal hand that presents it to us, it is a mortal hand that accepts it.
No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.
Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.
One may be humble out of pride.
Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.