Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.
Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
God exalts the man who humbles himself.
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.