Things are only worth what you make them worth.
No matter what everybody says, ultimately these things can harm us only by the way we react to them.
Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were righteous, all hearts true and frank and loyal, what use would our virtues be?
There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!