We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.