Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

In short, virtue cannot live where envy reigns, nor liberality subsist with niggardliness.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Seek for good, but expect evil.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

The wise hand does not all the tongue dictates.