It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.