It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.
He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.