Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.

Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.

No man is the wiser for his learning

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

Money makes a man laugh.