Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.
Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.