A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

No man was ever wise by chance.