Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

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.

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

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.