But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy.

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

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

Learn to be pleased with everything...because it could always be worse, but isn't!

Either is both, and Both is neither.

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.