A good spouse and health is a person's best wealth.

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

The world is run by the people who show up.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.

All cats look gray in the dark.