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• The sad vicissitude of things. -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- Sermon xvi
• And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose.
  -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, Line 87...
• The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastised by sabler tints of woe.
  -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, Line 45...
• The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
  -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, Line 53...
• The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626...
• From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful nigh
  Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health....
• In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world
  as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad....
• It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...