I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.

But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.

Concealment is the foe of tranquility.

Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.