Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.