To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.

'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

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.

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.