Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

The fire of my adversity has purged the mass of my acquaintance.

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. It makes right reason a law in every possible definition of the word. And therefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it had been the most amiable and the most useful invention that was ever imposed on mankind for their good.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate.