It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

I am above being injured by fortune, though she steals away much, more will remain with me. The blessing I now enjoy transcend fear.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

That which never has been, never is, and never will be.