To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.
Abstinence is easier than temperance.
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.