It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
He who begs timidly courts a refusal.
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
Necessity is stronger than duty.