The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.
A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.