The concern that some women show at the absence of their husbands, does not arise from their not seeing them and being with them, but from their apprehension that their husbands are enjoying pleasures in which they do not participate, and which, from their being at a distance, they have not the power of interrupting.

God might grant us riches, honours, life, and even health, to our own hurt; for every thing that is pleasing to us is not always good for us. If he sends us death, or an increase of sickness, instead of a cure, Vvrga tua et baculus, tuus ipsa me consolata sunt. "Thy rod and thy staff have comforted me," he does it by the rule of his providence, which better and more certainly discerns what is proper for us than we can do; and we ought to take it in good part, as coming from a wise and most friendly hand.

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.