The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
To many men much-wandering hope comes as a boon, but to many others it is the deception of vain desires.
The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.
Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.