Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.
I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Celestial wisdom calms the mind.