True love can fear no one.
No possession is gratifying without a companion.
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall.
We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.