Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.