Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.