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

Men have written in the most convincing manner to prove that death is no evil, and this opinion has been confirmed on a thousand celebrated occasions by the weakest of men as well as by heroes. Even so I doubt whether any sensible person has ever believed it, and the trouble men take to convince others as well as themselves that they do shows clearly that it is no easy undertaking.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.