It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

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

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

the days, and the months, and the years, pass so swiftly, that I can no longer retain them. Time, in its flight, hurries me away, in spite of myself; in vain I endeavor to stop him, he drags me along: the thought of this alarms me.

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

It is freezing fit to split a stone.