If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we
did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
