We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

One swallow alone does not make a summer.