Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

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.

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain that if gets broken.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate.

Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more.

Where one door shuts another opens.

Let the worst come to the worst.