Every man is his own worst enemy
As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.
Ignorance is not innocence.
It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.
There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.