The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
Successful villany is called virtue.
Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.