Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

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

For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.