To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.