The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.
It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.
Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.