Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.