It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other

Proverbs are the sanctuary of the intuitions.