It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.