Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Repartee is the soul of conversation.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.

I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.