All things are difficult before they are easy.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
The fool wanders, a wise man travels.
A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
He that hopes no good fears no ill.
Bad excuses are worse than none.