The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

That grief is light which can take counsel. [Lat., Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.]

Great grief does not of itself put an end itself. [Lat., Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.]