That happy state of mind, so rarely possessed, in which we can say, "I have enough," is the highest attainment of philosophy.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

All our distinctions ire accidental; beauty and deformity, though personal qualities, are neither entitled to praise nor censure; yet it so happens that they color our opinion of those qualities to which mankind have attached responsibility.

Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.

Liberal of cruelty are those who pamper with promises; promisers destroy while they deceive, and the hope they raise is dearly purchased by the dependence that is sequent to disappointment.

Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected.

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.