Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

Golden roofs break men's rest.