Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee.

Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?

I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Chance is the providence of adventurers.