What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.
There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
There is no accounting for tastes.