Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.

What I am to be, I am now becoming.

There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies.

Industry pays debts, while despair increases them.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

As Pride increases, Fortune declines.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.