Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Anger is practical awkwardness.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.