Two powerful destroyers: Time and Adversity.—A. de Musset.
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolation.—Thomas à Kempis.
Adversity, like winter weather, is of use to kill those vermin which the summer of prosperity is apt to produce and nourish.—Arrowsmith.
Adversity, how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of Guilt!—Blair.
Advice.—People are sooner reclaimed by the side wind of a surprise than by downright admonition.—L'Estrange.
Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice.—Massillon.
Affectation.—All affectation proceeds from the supposition of possessing something better than the rest of the world possesses. Nobody is vain of possessing two legs and two arms, because that is the precise quantity of either sort of limb which everybody possesses.—Sydney Smith.
Affectation is certain deformity.—Blair.
Affection.—None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch, but love and envy.—Bacon.
None are so desolate but something dear, dearer than self, possesses or possess'd.—Byron.