As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

Next to God, we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth having

Few minds wear out; more rust out