Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

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

But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.