When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.