When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse

Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.

When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.