When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Great changes are easier than small ones.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
I believe in deeply ordered chaos
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.
Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.