True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

In the literary as well as military world, most powerful abilities will often be found concealed under a rustic garb.

Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.