Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances