He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.