Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.
Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.
Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.
Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.
An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.