Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

I see the cure is not worth the pain.

I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.