What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

What else is nature but God?

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.