The indulgence in grief is a blunder.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.
Be thine own privy counsellor.
Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.