No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.