The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
I quote others in order to better express my own self.
We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health.
What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?
A man must live in the world and make the best of it such as it is.
There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.
Oh what a valiant faculty is hope.