. . . it seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it.

. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least, the rarest, the most common, the most public, the most private till today. . . I cannot bring myself to tell you: guess what it is.

It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

good and evil travel on the same road, but they leave different impressions.

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

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