If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
See what daily exercise does for one.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.