Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.