Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.