God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
What once were vices are manners now.
Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.
No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.