Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
No evil is without its compensation.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.