No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

A tooth is much more to be prized than a diamond.

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.