war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.

. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . .

Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

The world has no long injustices.

There is nothing so lovely as to be beautiful. Beauty is a gift of God and we should cherish it as such.