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.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

What is perfectly true is perfectly witty.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.