“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”

“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”

“The thing I fear most is fear.”

“The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.”

“~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~”

“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.”

“Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.”