Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die ... and to live.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.