The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?

It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.

There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.