Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.