Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
It is well for one to know more than he says.
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.