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.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.