Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
He who begs timidly courts a refusal.