The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.