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.
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.
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.