There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.

For all evils there are two remedies: time and silence.

Men are not to be judged by the face they show in society, but by the face they show to misfortune.