The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.