As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.

Time discovers truth.

Be harsh with yourself at times.