It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

As many suffer from too much as too little.