It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.
It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.