Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.