Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.

It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.