“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality”

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”

“As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.”

“What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?”

“It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”