If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
Praise thyself never.
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.