How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.