A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

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

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.