How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.