None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.
Virtue is too often merely local.
Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.