Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.
It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
The character of a man is known from his conversations.
Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.