One should always have one's boots on and be ready to leave.
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.
A man must become wise at his own expense.
It is a small soul, buried beneath the weight of affairs, that does not know how to get clean away from them, that cannot put them aside and pick them up again.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
I have gathered a posy of other menยs flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.