The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.