When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
We pardon familiar vices.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.