The good governor should have a broken leg and keep at home.
Every man is the son of his own works.
The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.
Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
Love not what you are but only what you may become.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.