Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.