A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word.

Time is an herb that cures all Diseases.