Troubles Forereckoned Are Doubly Suffered.

Affliction, Like The Iron-smith, Shapes As It Smites.

It Is Safer To Quote What Is Written Than What Is Spoken. What A Man Writes It Is Fair To Presume He Believes As A Matter Of General Conviction, But It Is Not So With What He Utters In The Freedom Of Conversation. In That He May Only Express The Feeling Of The Moment, And Not His Settled Judgment, Or Matured Opinion.

It Is Invidious To Distinguish Particular Men As Adventurers: We Are All Such.

Tears Are Nature's Lotion For The Eyes. The Eyes See Better For Being Washed By Them.

What Is Taken From The Fortune, Also, May Haply Be So Much Lifted From The Soul. The Greatness Of A Loss, As The Proverb Suggests, Is Determinable, Not So Much By What We Have Lost, As By What We Have Left.